Help educate, activate and ally your community in preventing sexual assault during Sexual Assault Prevention Week Chicago, 4/23-4/29, 2017. Lend your support and get involved at www.liftUPlift.org/SAP-Week! Thanks to the Chicago Foundation for Women making #SAPWeek possible with a grant from the 100 Day Fund!

CHICAGO, January 18, 2017 - Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) launched “The 100 Day Fund” to engage local communities in campaigns to create gender equality during the first 100 days of the Trump administration. One of the first recipients of the new grant is liftUPlift Worldwide, a Chicago-based 501(c)3 nonprofit that will use…

Trigger Warning: This story includes references to sexual assault and suicide. Marcie Gerald was a Midwestern teenager who loved dancing and wanted to go to Harvard. But after she was sexually assaulted and forced to face her perpetrator in court as he unapologetically recounted every detail of the crime, Marcie sank into…

Six years ago, Dave Booda was accused of rape. He didn't defend himself - instead, here's what happened. "When Yes Doesn’t Mean Yes" In Dave's words: The more I talked to women about their experience, the more I realized it wasn’t at all like mine. I rarely feel unsafe. When I…

This letter from a young woman who was sexually assaulted by former Stanford University student Brock Turner will be read in its entirety on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives next week. U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) will host a one-hour special order on the evening of June 15.…

5 Million People Read This Sexual Assault Survivor's Letter. You Should, Too. Post Author: Katie Ashbaugh, Chicago, IL “Your Honor, if it is all right, for the majority of this statement I would like to address the defendant directly,” the young woman’s statement begins. “You don’t know me, but you’ve…